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1. in the end we're all the same by billynsteve

   Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV)  

   • Not Rated
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   03 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • River Cartwright/James "Spider" Webb
   • River Cartwright
   • James "Spider" Webb
   • Jackson Lamb (Slow Horses)
   • Louisa Guy
   • Diana Taverner
   • Shirley Dander
   • Marcus Longridge
   • Catherine Standish
   • Roddy Ho
   • Forced Proximity
   • Friends to Enemies to Lovers
   • Spider is a slow horse
   • canon-divergence
   • Thriller
   • the boys be working an op together
   • they're also exhaling a lot idk
   • no beta we die like…well
   • take your pick
   • Canon Typical Violence
   • MI5 - Freeform
   • i've never written a thriller before an it shows
   • im not on tumblr or anything and idk i thought there would be more fics like this so if you can reccomend any please do
   • more tags to come when i can think
   • spider is emotionally damaged
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst
   • Slow Burn

   Summary

   MI5 has a system they don’t officially acknowledge. When a routine missing-persons case starts echoing through classified channels, Slough House finds itself brushing against something it was never meant to see.

   or; River Cartwright is very good at not trusting people. James Webb, back from the dead, makes that difficult.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   36,968

   Chapters:

   6/?

   Comments:

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